Shinya Ueda 上田 真也

“I really enjoy, and take a great pride in my role at ALJ [Abdul Latif Jameel] in facilitating business development with Japanese companies, especially Japanese startups in healthcare industries.

We are actively looking into Japanese startups who can deliver real solutions to social challenges such as access to health care services and improve daily health conditions for the benefit of a large group of populations across the globe.

As a part of my daily job we have ongoing business interactions and meetings and our fundamental job is to clearly explain ALJ’s core mission and values.  Once Japanese companies begin to understand ALJ business philosophy, we can actually feel that they start showing great respect and empathy with ALJ.  And that is really a turning point that we start discussion of tremendous business opportunity through business alliance and collaboration.

In that moment I really feel proud of myself for the day-to-day job at ALJ.

We are fully motivated to proceed with a continuous journey for ALJ to be a highly valuable business partner with Japanese companies under the common spirit of building a better society and this can be achieved because of [the] energy, philosophy and [the] great leadership from Mr. Jameel – especially [his] entrepreneurial mindset for bringing social contributions through technology innovation.”